#wit plays dnd

[swordofwit]

Tonight's D&D session: Half the party had a combat-heavy night fending devils off the other half of the party!

... Meanwhile the aformentioned other half, both in- and out-of-character, *completely* ignored the combat because they were too engrossed in trying to codebreak the puzzle lock of a bank vault

(That half of the table only had one PC make a single combat roll, and only after an imp literally dropped on their head without them –again, either in or out of character– even realizing there was an enemy anywhere near them on the battlemap 😆 )

[swordofwit]

Hey mutuals, I'm starting up a new TTRPG campaign (using the game system Draw Steel, which is teeechnically not D&D but basically adjacent) and since it'll be online anyways, I thiught I'd throw out there that if any of y'all might be interested, shoot me a message?

[swordofwit]

Still waiting to frame it properly, but in the meantime my incredible calligraphy commission by @carpe-aurore is now on the wall! (And makes me cackle with delight every time I look at it)

(Featuring an extremely chaotic quote from the time my D&D campaign's thieves-guild party defeated a storm sorcerer villain by getting him permanently turned into a chicken by a different villain, and the ensuing debate by the party over who now owned his bank vault if he's not dead, just a chicken, and who they would thus be antagonising if they decided to rob it)

(Also, @carpe-aurore was fantastic to work with and did incredible work, and you should absolutely commission her!)

[swordofwit]

While conversing with one of my D&D players, after ominously/cryptically alluding to future Drama™️ in store for their character:

Player: "Why would you do this to me??"

Me (DM): "... Because you specifically handed me a very shiny backstory knife?"

Player: "...Why would *I* do this to me??"

[swordofwit]

Aaaah, Dungeons and Dragons, where we get such wonderful nonsensical sentences as "The banking legal snaffu of his chicken-ness" 😂

(An NPC villain got True Polymorphed into a chicken a bit ago, and the party is trying to figure out if his possessions will still be in his bank vault so they can rob it, or if being turned into a chicken means he'll have been legally considered "dead" and his vault's contents already transferred to someone else. Based on their research rolls, I explained that the poor bank is also asking themselves that exact question, and will be taking a while to sort it out)

[swordofwit]

I have a friend who, even though we play D&D regularly, we've only played in games where I DM'ed and they were a player. ... We started a campaign where we're both players, and are quickly discovering how terribly similar our brains work when on the same side of the table.

(... Made worse when we both in- and out-of-character start excitedly nerding out at extremely fast speeds, and leave the rest of the room staring in confusion)

[swordofwit]

I played Session 1 of a new D&D campaign, wherein I am (gasp) actually just playing and not DMing?? Wild and baffling.

And thus I was reminded that, when I'm not juggling an entire cast of characters and game mechanics and all the million other things that go with DMing, and only have to manage one single solitary character... I quickly devolve into a terrible chaos gremlin because my brain doesn't know what to do with so much free space while playing D&D 😅

(I'm playing a Celestial Patron warlock with a -2 Wisdom modifier, and they're just the the cheeriest, slightly-oblivious, most-friendly-and-overly-trusting, dressed-all-in-bright-pastels disaster of a 7-foot-tall orc there e'er was 😆 I'm very excited to see what future shenanigans they get into)